Federal Communications Commission DA 12-1773 
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
PAPPAMMAL KURIAN
Request for Reinstatement of Licenses
THOMAS KURIAN
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Call Signs WNVJ741, WPIQ777, 
WPTG843, WPXC618, WPXY504, and 
WQAQ340
Call Signs KNNF731 and WQO982
ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION AND ORDER OF MODIFICATION 
Adopted:  November 2, 2012 Released:  November 5, 2012
By the Deputy Chief, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:
1. Introduction.  In this Order on Reconsideration and Order of Modification, we deny and 
dismiss petitions filed by Pappammal Kurian (Ms. Kurian)1 and Thomas Kurian (Mr. Kurian)2 seeking 
reconsideration of an Order and Order Proposing Modification (Order),3 which granted in part and 
denied in part Ms. Kurian’s request for reinstatement of six private land mobile radio (PLMR) licenses.  
We also modify two PLMR licenses held by Mr. Kurian, as proposed in the Order.  
2. Background.4  Following the Kurians’ divorce, a dispute arose between Ms. Kurian and 
Richard Susainathan over ownership of PLMR licensee S M Leasing and Rental Ltd. (S M Leasing).  
Specifically, Ms. Kurian argued that she owned S M Leasing because Mr. Kurian had conveyed it to her 
as part of a marital property settlement agreement, but Mr. Susainathan argued that the company should 
not have been included in the Kurians’ marital estate because he, rather than Mr. Kurian, owned it.  
3. While the dispute was being litigated in state court, Mr. Susainathan filed applications to 
assign the S M Leasing licenses to himself,5 and to cancel S M Leasing’s license for Station WPTG8436
as part of an agreement with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority (DART), which with S M Leasing’s 
consent had acquired a new license for the spectrum that had been licensed to Station WPTG843.7 The 
Wireless Telecommunication Bureau’s Mobility Division (Division) granted the assignment and 
  
1 Pappammal Kurian, Petition for Reconsideration (filed Nov. 19, 2011) (Pappammal Kurian Petition).
2 Thomas K. Kurian, Petition for Reconsideration of Commission’s DA 11-1800 Dated October 26, 2011, Petition to 
Deny the Assignment of Call Sign WPIQ777, WQAQ340, WPCX618, and WNVJ741; Request to Initiate License 
Revocation Proceedings Against Pappammal Kurian (filed Feb. 2, 2012) (Thomas Kurian Petition).  Insofar as the 
Thomas Kurian Petition is a petition to deny and request to initiate revocation proceedings, we will address it in a 
separate action.
3 Pappammal Kurian, Order and Order Proposing Modification, 26 FCC Rcd 15177 (WTB MD 2011) (Order).
4 For more detailed information regarding the background of this matter, see id. at 15177-79 ¶¶ 2-9.
5 See FCC File No. 0002566618 (filed Apr. 11, 2006, amended Apr. 10, 2007 and Apr. 26, 2007).  Mr. Susainathan 
was the listed contact person for S M Leasing in the Commission’s licensing records.
6 See FCC File No. 0003300927 (filed Jan. 18, 2008).
7 See FCC File No. 0003281568 (filed Jan. 10, 2008).
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cancellation applications over Ms. Kurian’s objections.8 In response to Ms. Kurian’s assertion that she 
owned S M Leasing, the Division noted that the state court litigation was ongoing, and held that, in the 
absence of a definitive final court order, nothing in the Commission’s rules precluded granting the 
applications.9 Mr. Susainathan subsequently assigned the other former S M Leasing licenses at issue to 
Mr. Kurian.10 Mr. Kurian modified his license for Station WQO982 to add frequencies assigned to 
Station WNVJ741,11 then cancelled the license for Station WNVJ741;12 and modified his license for 
Station KNNF731 to add frequencies assigned to Stations WPIQ777 and WQAQ340,13 then cancelled the 
licenses for Stations WPIQ777, WPXC618, and WQAQ340.14
4. In a separate proceeding, the Division found that another S M Leasing license, for Station 
WPXY504, had cancelled automatically due to permanent discontinuance of operation.15 The frequencies 
that had been authorized under Call Sign WPXY504 license were later licensed to other parties in the 800 
MHz rebanding process.
5. After the state court awarded S M Leasing to Ms. Kurian in 2010,16 she requested 
reinstatement of the six former S M Leasing licenses that had been cancelled by Mr. Susainathan, Mr. 
Kurian, or the Division.17 In 2011, the Division reinstated the licenses for Stations WNVJ741, WPIQ777, 
WPCX618, and WQAQ340, but declined to reinstate the licenses for Stations WPTG843 and WPXY504 
in view of the competing equities favoring the parties that had acquired the spectrum formerly authorized 
under those two licenses and other public interest considerations.18 As an additional measure to enable 
Ms. Kurian to restore interference-free operations at the four stations, the Division proposed to modify 
Mr. Kurian’s licenses for Stations KNNF731 and WQO982 by deleting the frequencies that he had added 
from the former S M Leasing licenses that he cancelled.19 Mr. Kurian was given thirty days to protest the 
  
8 See Pappammal Kurian Petition to Deny (filed Apr. 12, 2007); Pappammal Kurian Petition to Deny (filed Jan. 30, 
2008).    
9  See Pappammal Kurian, Letter, 24 FCC Rcd 4842, 4845 (WTB MD 2009), pet. for recon. dismissed, Order on 
Reconsideration, 25 FCC Rcd 3686 (WTB MD 2010).
10 See FCC File Nos. 0003915191 (filed July 28, 2009) (WNVJ741), 0003946875 (filed Aug. 25, 2009) (WPIQ777), 
0003957109 (filed Sept. 4, 2009) (WPXC618), 0003993720 (filed Oct. 13, 2009) (WQAQ340).
11 See FCC File Nos. 0003947529 (Aug. 25, 2009), 0004036432 (filed Nov. 17, 2009).
12 See FCC File No. 0004009277 (filed Oct. 27, 2009).
13 See FCC File No. 0004012350 (filed Oct. 29, 2009).    
14 See FCC File Nos. 0004143990-92 (filed Mar. 3, 2010).
15 See Letter, dated July 6, 2007, from Scot Stone, Deputy Chief, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications 
Bureau, to Richard R. Susainathan, citing 47 C.F.R. § 90.157 (providing that a private land mobile radio license 
“shall cancel automatically upon permanent discontinuance of operations” and further providing that “any station 
which has not operated for one year or more is considered to have been permanently discontinued”).  
16 See Susainathan v. Kurian, Consolidated Case Nos. A505829, A514179, A555891, Judgment Upon Jury Verdict
(Dist. Ct., Clark County, Nev. Aug. 11, 2010) at ¶ 28.  In furtherance of that court order, the S M Leasing licenses 
that had not been cancelled were assigned to Ms. Kurian.  See FCC File No. 0004739550 (filed May 23, 2011).
17 See Pappammal Kurian Request for Reinstatement of Licenses (filed May 4, 2011).
18 See Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 15180-81 ¶¶ 10-14.  It also granted waivers to Ms. Kurian to give her a reasonable 
opportunity to restore the four reinstated stations to operational status.  Id. at 15181-82 ¶¶ 15-16.
19 See id. at 15182-83 ¶ 15.  The Division acted pursuant to the Commission’s statutory authority under Section 
316(a)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. § 316(a)(1).  Specifically, the Division 
proposed to modify the license for Station KNNF731 by deleting frequencies 937.9500 MHz, 937.9625 MHz, 
937.9750 MHz, 937.9875 MHz, and 938.0000 MHz from location 4; and to modify the license for Station WQO982 
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proposed modification of those two licenses, and cautioned that he would be deemed to have consented to 
the proposed modification if no protest was filed.20
6. Discussion.  Ms. Kurian seeks reconsideration of the Order insofar as it declined to 
reinstate the licenses for Stations WPTG843 and WPXY504.21 We conclude that Ms. Kurian’s petition 
offers no basis to reconsider that decision.  Ms. Kurian simply reiterates that she timely opposed Mr. 
Susainathan’s applications involving those licenses, and that the licenses were hers by virtue of the 
marital property settlement agreement.  The Order explained why those factors were outweighed by the 
factors militating against reinstatement of those two licenses.  The petition does not identify any error of 
fact or law in the Order, and does not present any new facts or changed circumstances that might 
otherwise warrant reconsideration of the Order.22 We therefore deny the petition with respect to Stations 
WPTG843 and WPXY504.  
7. Mr. Kurian did not protest the proposed modifications of his licenses within thirty days of 
the Order.  He did file a pleading on February 2, 2012, that sought reconsideration of the Order as well as 
related relief, and that might be construed as also protesting the proposed modification of his licenses.23  
Mr. Kurian did not request an extension of time to file a protest or a waiver of the thirty-day filing period.  
Consequently, the filing is untimely and ineffective as a protest.  He is therefore deemed to have 
consented to the proposed modification.  In addition, to the extent that the pleading seeks reconsideration 
of the Order, it must be dismissed as untimely.24 We therefore modify the licenses for Stations 
KNNF731 and WQO982 as proposed in the Order.  
8. Ordering Clauses.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 405 of 
the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 405, and Section 1.106 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.106, that the Petition for Reconsideration filed by Pappammal Kurian 
on November 19, 2011, IS DENIED IN PART AND DISMISSED IN PART.
9. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 405 of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 405, and Section 1.106 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 
C.F.R. § 1.106, that the Petition for Reconsideration of Commission’s DA 11-1800 Dated October 26, 
2011, Petition to Deny the Assignment of Call Sign WPIQ777, WQAQ340, WPCX618, and WNVJ741; 
Request to Initiate License Revocation Proceedings Against Pappammal Kurian filed by Thomas Kurian 
on February 2, 2012, IS DISMISSED IN PART.
10. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 316(a) of the 
  
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by deleting frequencies 854.8375 MHz, 860.7875 MHz, and 860.8125 MHz from all three fixed sites (locations 1, 4, 
and 6).  See Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 15183 ¶ 18.  
20 See Order, 26 FCC Rcd at 15183 ¶ 19; 47 C.F.R. § 1.87.  
21 Ms. Kurian also seeks reconsideration of the Order insofar as it obligated her to file an application to renew the 
license for Station WNVJ741.  This request for relief is moot, however, because Ms. Kurian filed an application to 
renew that license, and it has been granted.  See FCC File No. 0004964300 (filed Nov. 22, 2011).  Consequently, we 
dismiss the Pappammal Kurian Petition in part with respect to Station WNVJ741.
22 See 47 C.F.R. § 1.106(c), (d); see also WWIZ, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 37 FCC 685, 686 ¶ 2 
(1964), aff'd sub nom. Lorain Journal Co. v. FCC, 351 F.2d 824 (D.C. Cir. 1965), cert. denied, 383 U.S. 967 (1966) 
(stating that “it is universally held that rehearing will not be granted merely for the purpose of again debating 
matters on which the tribunal has once deliberated and spoken”).
23 See Thomas Kurian Petition.     
24 See 47 U.S.C. § 405(a); 47 C.F.R. § 1.106(f) (petition for reconsideration must be filed within thirty days of 
public notice of Commission action).  
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Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 316(a), and Section 1.87 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.87, that the license for Station KNNF731 BE MODIFIED to delete 
frequencies 937.9500 MHz, 937.9625 MHz, 937.9750 MHz, 937.9875 MHz, and 938.0000 MHz from 
location 4.
11. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Sections 4(i) and 316(a) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. §§ 154(i), 316(a), and Section 1.87 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 1.87, that the license for Station WQO982 BE MODIFIED to delete 
frequencies 854.8375 MHz, 860.7875 MHz, and 860.8125 MHz from locations 1, 4, and 6.
12. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, pursuant to Section 4(i) of the Communications Act of 
1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. § 154(i), and Section 1.87(i) of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. 
§ 1.87(i), that this Order on Reconsideration and Order of Modification SHALL BE SENT by certified 
mail, return receipt requested, to Thomas K. Kurian, 11392 Vernazza Ct., Las Vegas NV 89138.
13. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 0131, 0.331.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Scot Stone
Deputy Chief, Mobility Division
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau